February 19, 2010

Thad McCotter: We fit our mind to the world, not the world to our mind.

"Congressman, does this make marriage more or less appealing? More marriages where you toss the 'I'll be faithful' vow?" Greg Gutfeld teased an impassive, pink-tied Thaddeus McCotter on Red Eye a couple of weeks back. The MIchigan Congressman's answer nonplussed the assembled guests of Fox News's fast-moving NSFW wee-hour gabfest.

And so I would think when you go into this, you go into it with your eyes open, and you take the person as they are, and you try to go from there …

In many ways we've become a generation or a nation that has traded romance for relationships, and this goes down the way where this is some scientific equilibrium you can keep between two people, and that's not how human beings work. And I think that the removal of that type of vow is an indication that somehow you have less than realistic expectations about [whether] human beings, sentient beings with hearts and with dreams and aspirations, can bond together or not."

Anyone who is not ignorant and unable to make reasonable analysis can see that a civilization based on family values will be stronger than one whose values are variable. Humans will at times fail to honor these values but saying that one should not have them as goals to strive for is supreme ignorance.

I saw Congressman McCotter's appearance on Red Eye live. (or as live as you can be at that hour) He even had Greg Gutfeld nearly speechless (or as speechless as Greg Gutfeld can be) You could tell that the whole crew of Red Eye was also leaning in, waiting for the wise words that invariably come from the lips of such a sage. Thad McCotter is a treasure.